Discover 21 influential Black leaders who changed history through activism, politics, education, science and justice.

who was the first Black woman to represent the West Coast in Congress and the first African American and woman of color to serve as vice chairperson at the 1972 Democratic National Convention.

Actors Theatre of Little Rock’s rendition of Ntozake Shange’s “for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow ...

He said that Black and Indigenous men and women, both free and enslaved, participated in every single incident of the American Revolution. "By the end of the war, we know that, on the Patriot side ...

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Rome is always teeming, and Easter usually kicks off the long tourist season. Up to 250,000 are expected to attend the Pope's ...

This is because the street culture has evolved what may be called a code of the streets, which amounts to a set of informal rules governing interpersonal public behavior, including violence. The rules ...

Continuing the theme from a previous column examining the experience of Black women accounting leaders, I had the good fortune of interviewing Chanel Christoff Davis of Davis Davis & Harmon, CEO of ...

Tributes to Pope Francis instantly poured in from around the world from presidents to people of all walks of like on Monday after the Vatican announced ...

You don’t have to feel like, ‘I’m the sexiest woman alive ... Last year was the hottest year on record, and Black Americans are “40% more likely than non-Black Americans and non-African Americans to ...

A quarter century later, this small generation of South African immigrants ... government’s Congressional Black Caucus, and, during the violent tumult in Liberia in 1997, she led a workshop there on ...

and Moss describes it as “a church that is unashamedly Black and unapologetically Christian.” The African American museum, one of 21 Smithsonian museums, has also seen a recent shake-up in ...